Editing Celia Johnson (section)

==Early life and education==
Born in [[Richmond, London|Richmond]], Surrey, and nicknamed "Betty", Johnson was the second daughter of John Robert Johnson and Ethel (née Griffiths) Johnson. Her first public performance was in 1916, when she played a role in a charity performance of ''King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid'' to raise funds for returned [[First World War]] soldiers.{{Citation needed|date=February 2014}}

She attended [[St Paul's Girls' School]] in London from 1919 until 1926, and played the oboe in the school's orchestra under [[Gustav Holst]]. She acted in school productions, but had no other acting experience, when she was accepted to study at [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] in 1926, where she was in the same class as [[Margaretta Scott]]. She later spent a term in Paris, studying under [[Pierre Fresnay]] at the [[Comédie Française]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Celia Johnson Biography |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424743/bio |website=IMDb |access-date=1 November 2019}}</ref> She later recalled her choice of an acting career with the comment, "I thought I'd rather like it. It was the only thing I was good at. And I thought it might be rather wicked."<ref name="Kate Grimond"/>